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My name is jared kushner, i am senior adviser to president donald j. trump. let me be very clear, i did not collude with russia nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. >> donald trump's son-in-law had so many foreign entanglements that two career security specialists at the white house recommended that he not receive a top security clearance citing concerns about potential foreign influence on kushner that's according to two sources familiar with the matter ultimately the specialist's concerns were overruled by a trump appointee who overruled concer...

Agency on that was the director of the national intelligence. okay. i held a top secret s.c.i. security clearance when i was a warrior most of my adult life. there are members of congress that know how to keep secrets. we have your house intelligence and the senate intelligence committees. they are sworn to things that most of us never see. get to the bottom of that. if there is something sensitive it doesn't mean you keep it from congress. we, the people, govern ourselves by concept. the government draws power from the people. that does not give the agencies the ability to play i've got a sec...

Was there before, she also knows he doesn't have any good answers to this, and she wants him to step up there. it sounds like sarah sanders is trying to cause problems for john kelly. >> look, what sarah sanders is saying is i lie blatantly and professionally for donald trump i don't lie blatantly and professionally for you, john kelly. so why don't you go up and lie to the american people for yourself directly because the whole story is unraveling. what we're going to find out, lawrence, is this investigation about rob porter was substantially done by july with some augmentations in november....

In white houses, held stop secret sci clearances and when the investigation was done, our clearances were made permanent. so in this case when that investigation was done, his temporary status was not shifted to permanent, why not? who decided to maintain him knowing that he could not get a permanent clearance in a position on a temporary status with access to the nation's most closely guarded secrets? and how many more people in and around the president and in and around the nation's most closely guarded secrets, how many of those people have substantially finished fbi full field background i...

Is -- >> you're talking about jared or porter? >> well, both. >> both. >> and so -- and then the process really slows down. and then they go, what the heck are we going to do? and do we tell the fbi director, do we tell mcgahn? so when it takes that long a time, there's a problem. there's a larger problem which coats identified which is this clearance process is broken. so this take takes, in my exper, six months was the fastest. nine months was bad. then it would take a year. >> let's be clear -- >> you have people looking at the president's daily brief who do not have a top secret sci, secur...